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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents per website below are John and Rebecca Banner. Two sons are listed for this couple: Thomas and Benjamin Banner. John Banner married second Mary Tylden. Children for Benjamin and Sarah Clinch are also listed as well as children for Thomas.
2. Mentioned in father's will per Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/extr2.html#clinch Extracts from Kent Wills:
Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Vol.98 folio 205 Probate 10 Feb 1769 William Clinch of Stockbury, yeoman, will dated 9 Jan 1769 Daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Hales Daughter Sarey, wife of Benjamin Bannor Stephen Hales, Joseph Fuller [typo: will reads James Fuller] Sons Thomas (executor), John and William Witnessed by Thomas Wyles, Robert Terry and Ann Terry.
3. Website of Roy L. Hales accessed 4 Jan 2016 <https://sites.google.com/site/ourkentishgenealogy/surnames/bannar>; Roy is a descendant of William Clinch, son of Stephen Hales and Ann Clinch:
"Generation One
John Bannar (1700 - March 27 1768) married Rebekah Tilden (1700/01 - Mar 27 1763) in Stockbury on October 22, 1723. They lived in house #10 in the lands beyond the church, or South Green, in the Overseers accounts (which date from 1731). John Banner's assessment was 13 shillings, 6 pence. While many of the surrounding farms are more valuable, John was both owner and occupant. His name was soon scrawled across many pages as the parish overseer. He was farming in the adjoining parish of Bredgar by 1731 and had three parcels there in 1741. The Seven Years War brought prosperity to farmers and John was renting an additional three properties in Stockbury by 1765. The accounts mention he paying labourers wages of between £2 and £6. He also distributed a pair of gloves, a coat and waste coat, allotments of wood and gave a shift to Elizabeth Knight. John and Rebekkah Banner were buried in Stockbury's graveyard, and their tombstone says:
"Here leith the body of
Rebecca, Wife of John Bannar
Who departed this life on March 31st 1763
Aged 62 years
Left 3 sons and 2 daughters Eliza, Thomas, John, Bennet and Rebecca
Seven of their sons buried here ye place
Also leith the body of John Bannar of this Parish Yeoman
Died March the 4th 1768 Aged ..."
As you can see in the section below, the Bannar's lost six of their 13 children. This is heart rending, but not unheard of in an age when practices like washing your hands before delivering a baby were unheard of:
Elizabeth Bannar (c Sept 28 1724) married William Young on Oct 22, 1744
John Bannar (c Mar 20 1725/26)
Thomas Bannar (c Mar 5 1727 - June 8 1780) married Elizabeth Goodhew (d/o James & Elizabeth) in Stockbury April 12 1766
William Bannar (Aug 10-18, 1731)
John Bannar (c 21 June 1732) served as witness for his father's will and at his brother Benjamin's wedding.
William Bannar (c 21 June 1732-Sept 24 1735)
Mary Bannar (c Sept 28 1735)
Robert Bannar (c Sept 12-26 1737)
William Bannar (c Apr 9 - May 11 1738)
Benjamin Bannar (1738-Dec 8, 1808) - biography follows
Tilden Bannar (c Sept 16 1739 - Jan 6 1740)
David Bannar (c Dec 7 1740)
Rebekkah Bannar (c Oct 9 1743 - Mar 1 1773) married John Featherstone in 1770 (story described in Benjamin's section)
[Image of John Banner's Will (1768).]
Generation Two:
Benjamin Bannar (1738-Dec 8, 1808) married Sarah Clinch (1742- Feb 1810) on 4 Apr 1768. The bride's fathers, William Clinch, and Benjamin's brother John Clinch [typo for Bannar] were witnesses.
Benjamin and Sarah both lost their fathers in 1768. Benjamin's died a little more than a week before their wedding and William Clinch two months after it.
As you can see from the will above, Benjamin and his brother John were to care for their youngest sister Rebekkah. She married John Featherstone, the last witness to that will, on July 2, 1770. He was a smallholder with a house Bredgar, and additional land in Stockbury, who had been fined £10 for poaching in 1762. (Helen Allinson, Bredgar, p 59). Rebecca gave birth to their only child, in Bredgar on 25 Aug 1771. The baby died and, on November 18, 1771, so did Rebekkah. Featherstone was sent to the prison hulk "Caphias" eight years later. A "single woman" by the name of Ann Williamson declared she was the father of her two children. John denied this, but according to the Bastardy Act of 1733, her word was sufficient proof. The court ordered provide a weekly maintenance of 1 shilling, 6 pence. John Featherstone refused, preferring imprisonment to providing for her. He gave his house and lands to his younger brother Stephen, on condition that he took in their mother and gave her £10. Then John Featherstone went off to the hulk. He was never heard from again. (Allinson, pp 58, 59)
The 1778 assessment for repairs to St Mary Magdalene church, in Stockbury, includes 2/- to Benjamin Bannar
Benjamin Bannar renting three parcels in South Green during 1781, the assessments totalled that year was £8, 12 shillings.
At the time of his death, in 1808, Benjamin owned, or rented, 110 acres in South Green, a tenement in Pett's farm, 42 acres in Bredgar, 10 acres of woodland in Borden's wood," 4 acres of meadowland called Anne's Field.
He was also Stockbury's parish Church warden in 1778, 1786, 1789, 1803-5.
As you can see on the left, Benjamin Banner was one of the eleven Stockbury freeholders allowed to participate in "the Poll for Knights of the Shire, to Represent the County of Kent in Parliament." The electors gathered on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on June 28-30, 1790. Benjamin was one of those who voted on the first day. There were three candidates, only two of which could represent the county. Sir Edward Knatchbull and Filmer Holywood were elected. The last election Benjamin could have voted in took place in 1806, when Knatchbull and William Holywood were sent to parliament. [Website has referenced image.]
Sarah Quaif[sic: typo for Clinch] died in 1808 and Benjamin followed her a little more than a year later. Their tombstone says:
"Sacred to the Memory of Sarah
Wife of Benjamin Banner of this parish
Who died on 6th February 1808 Aged 66 Years
Also the above Benjamin Banner Who died on 5th of December 1810 Aged 70 Years"
Children:
John Bannar (c 20 May 1769 - Feb 1810) - biography follows
Ann Bannar (c 23 Sept 1770-14 May 1777)
Sarah Bannar (1 May 1773-25 Aug 1773)
Benjamin Bannar (28 Aug 1774-26 Oct 1774)
Mary Bannar (2 May 1776-15 May 1777)
Tylden Bannar (c April 1779-6 July 1829) married Ann. church warden 1811.
Elizabeth Bannar (c 14 April 1782)
Rebecca Bannar (c 30 Jan 1784) married William Rayner on 11 Dec 1807
Richard Bannar (1790) married Frances Goodwin on 18 May, 1812"
BIRTH:
1. No record found in Stockbury looking at Parish, Bishop's, and Archdeacon's Records. Those who purport Benjamin was christened 27 Jul 1740 in Stockbury. A birth of 1738 does not look accurate either. The parish records have christened to John and Rebecca Banner as follows:
Thomas 8 Mar 1726/7
William 9 Apr 1738
Tilden 16 Sep 1739
David 27 Dec 1740
Rebekah 2 Oct 1743
Assuming an age of about 25 or older at the time of the 1768 marriage, Benjamin would have been born 1743 or earlier. The age on his 1810 tombstone was 70 which calculates to 1740, which looks to be erroneous in the above sequencing. This being the case, he would probably more likely have been born early 1742.
2. Concerning the tombstone inscriptions:
If Sarah's age of 66 was accurate, then she would have been born right on top of her brother James (17 Oct 1742). On the other hand there is a large gap of no children recorded from James to the next child Thomas in 1748 where Sarah more realistically fits. If her age is off, then there is certainly the possibility of the same for her husband Benjamin who if we believed the inscribed age of 70 would be born on top of David Banner in 1740. The only gap I see in that proximity is rather tight but workable in early 1742.
Both the church records and monumental inscriptions are excellent sources, but they appear conflicting and I am thinking the church records would trump since they were recorded at the event whereas the ages may be from a faulty memory of surviving relatives.
MARRIAGE:
1. Stockbury Church Records: Benjamin Bannor and Sarah Clinch, botp, marr. 4 Apr 1768 by banns with WIlliam Clinch and John Bannor as witnesses.
DEATH:
1. Tombstone inscription from FHL book 942.23/S7 V3s "St. Mary Magdalene Stockbury Monumental Inscriptions." Note is appears the reported ages are a bit loose since if they were correct, their births would conflict with siblings whose christening dates are established in the Stockbury Church records. Interestingly the christenings for both of them were not recorded even though their siblings were:
"Sacred to the Memory of Sarah
Wife of Benjamin Banner
of this Parish
who died 6th February 1808
Aged 66 years
Also the above Benjamin Banner
Who died the 5th of December 1808
Aged 70 years"
2. Note that his mother's tombstone lists her children still living at the time of her death. One of the names is Bennet, which apparently was the name they used for Benjamin.
BURIAL:
1. Internet Find My Past's "Kent Burials Transcriptions": Benjamin Banner, bur. 10 Dec 1808 at Stockbury, Kent, England.
2. There is a variance in the tombstone that reports a death date of 5 Dec 1810 (aged 70) and the church's burial record that reports 10 Dec 1808. I have confirmed the burial entry in the Stockbury Parish record FHL film 1473718, it. 2. Perhaps there is a transcription error in the tombstone reading.
SOURCES_MISC:
1. Rootsweb.com 17 Jun 2007 Worldconnect database "erndavis" of Ernie Davis
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1742 - 1810 (~ 69 years)